Support for hammocks



, A. MELNIKER AND S. CALMANSON.

SUPPORT FOR HAMMOCKS. APPLICATION FILED OCT. '12. 1920.

Patented Oct. 10

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Patented Oct. 10, 1922.

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Application filedOctober 12,1920. Serial No. 416,437.

To all whom it may concern 1 i .Be it known that we, ABRAHAM MELNrKnn and SAUL GALMANSON,Q1111Z6I1S of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvement in a Support for Hammocks, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a new and improved support for a hammock, crib or the like.

One of the objects of our invention is to devise a light, portable and collapsible crib and a light, secure, portable and collapsible frame or holder therefor.

Another object of our invention is to provide a suitable awning in connection with the said portable frame, for protecting the occupant of the said crib. Other objects of our invention will be described in the following description and drawings which illustrate a preferred embodiment thereof.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of our device.

F ig. 2 is a side elevation.

Fig.3 is an end elevation; V i Fig. 4: is an enlarged detail view showing a frame member and the cross bar.

. Fig. 5 is an end view of Fig. 4.

Fig.6 shows the frame members in their closed or collapsed position.

Fig. 7 shows the two frame members and the cross bar in their closed or collapsed position.

The leg or frame members 1 and 2 are made of wood or some other light, resilient material and they may be made in one piece or of several pieces which can. be secured in any suitable manner, which is not shown in the drawings, as this feature in itself forms no part of our invention. These frame members are hingedly connected to the top member 3 at the points 4 and 5 as clearly illus trated in Fig. 5.

One of the frame members 2 is provided with an eye 6 to which a brace 7 is secured,

and the other member 1 is provided with an eye 8 into which the hook-like member of the brace 7 can be inserted.

The frame members 1 and 2 are adapted to grip a cross bar 9 made of resilient material such as wood or the like. member 9 is powerfully clamped between the frame members 1 and 2 when the end of the brace 7 is forced into the eye 8, so

F that the cross bar 9 is held by a powerful frictional grip.

This cross The collapsible crib 10 which is of any suitable type is hung from the cross bar 9 by means of cords or ropes 11 which are secured to hooks 12, aflixed to the cross bar 9.

As shown in Fig. 7, it is preferable to have the frame members 1 and 2 of the same length as the cross bar 9, so that these parts can be easily bundled together when it is de-' sired'to transport the device.

An awning made of fabricll is adapted to be placed over the cross bar 9 and it is held in place by means of fasteners 15 which are secured to hooks on the frame members and which are also adapted to be secured to the frame bar 16 of the awning.

The operation of our device is as fol.- lows The bar 9 is passed under the fabric 14 of the awning and one end thereof is placed between one set of the frame members 1 and 2 inserting it through the hole in top memher 3 and is firmly gripped between said frame members by inserting the hook-like end of the brace 7 into the eye 8.

The other end of the bar 9 is secured to the other set of the frame members in the same manner.

The members 16 are now secured to the frame members 1 and 2 and the hammock or crib is then suspendedfrom the hooks 12 and the bar 9. It is to be noted that the cross bar 9 and the leg members 1 and 2 can be made of ordinary cylindrical pieces of wood or the like so that the device can be simple and economically manufactured because there is no need of casting or otherwise shaping the said parts so as to cause them to interlock or fit into each other.

The combination of the perforated top members 3 and the leg members 1 and 2 causes a very powerful grip to be secured even though the contacting portions of the cross bar 9 and of the leg members 1 and 2 all have convex contours.

Of course, it is obvious that the contacting portions of the leg members 1 and 2 and of the cross bar 9 could have numerous other contours whereby they would not interfit and which would be equivalent to the convex contours before mentioned.

We have described a preferred embodiment of our invention, but it is clear that numerous changes and modifications could be made without departing from its spirit.

:We claim 1. In a support for hammocks, cribs and the like, a plurality of top members, each substantially having the shape of an inverted U, each top member having a pair of bendable leg members separately connected thereto by means of separate pivots each said leg member having its top between the depending portions of its said top member, said top members each having a perforation at a point below the said pivots a crossbar adapted to pass through the perforations 1n the said top members, and means for bending'the said bendable leg members towards each other so that they frictionally grip said cross bar.

2. In a support for hammocks, cribs or the like a plurality of top members, each having a perforation therein, a cross bar adapted to pass through the perforations in the said top members, each said top member having a pair of bendable leg members pivotally connected thereto, the top 0t each said leg member being above the perforation in that top member to which it is connected,

a cross bar adapted to pass through the per- In testimony whereof we hereunto atfix our signatures. v

' ABRAHAM MELNIKER.

SAUL CALMANSON. 

